How to Use dictation in a Sentence

dictation

noun
  • He used a tape recorder for dictation.
  • Rads themselves will tell you that note dictation is the real grunt work.
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Also, aren’t there a lot of voice dictation translations apps out there now?
    — Molly McHugh, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2016
  • Ishiguro is not the kind of writer who takes dictation from his characters.
    — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The phone will stop interpreting your voice as dictation at that moment.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • When finished, press the Windows key + H to turn off dictation.
    — Kim Komando, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This week’s column is brought to you courtesy of Apple dictation.
    — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Others rely on voice dictation to record shower thoughts and capture dreams each morning in new chat threads.
    — Gelila, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Voice dictation is on every phone these days, but the Pixel is much faster and more accurate.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • When dictation might be called for, Bixby replaces a keyboard.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, WSJ, 19 July 2017
  • Make sure your phone isn’t too big for your hand and opt for hands-free tools when possible, such as voice dictation or a phone call instead of texting.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • Davis said they were checked against Hubbard’s original dictation.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • This could be significant for those that routinely use voice dictation for text and email messages.
    — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Cristina Mueller, a writer who once worked as her assistant, took dictation.
    — Kim Severson, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Doctors there would check him out and do dictation that will be disseminated to all 32 teams.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Typing, voice dictation technology or my usual chicken scratch would’ve done the job far faster.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The product is always a direct reflection of the views of his conference -- not his own dictation.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 June 2017
  • Before she would be allowed to go out and play, Karin would have to take dictation from her mother and then read it back to her perfectly.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Inspiration comes at her over multiple channels, and dictation from the Muse seems not to be one of them.
    — Matthew Gurewitsch, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
  • There were social reasons working against dictation machines, Morton says in his book.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
  • People across Ukraine sit and listen to a dictation of a famous work by a Ukrainian author.
    — Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025
  • At the time, Apple said only a small portion of data was shared to help improve Siri and dictation.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • So which Sydney Smith did the dictation exercise refer to—the son or the philosopher?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Apple claims that users will be able to intuitively control the device with eye contact, as well as through hand motions and voice dictation.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 6 June 2023
  • Bernstein was thrilled to feel a part of these events by osmosis, as those in a newsroom do, even if his role was mostly taking dictation from reporters in the field.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
  • With Gboard’s voice dictation, Osterloh talked to the Pixel to write and send a message.
    — Julian Chokkatt, Wired, 2 Aug. 2021
  • With Gboard’s voice dictation, Osterloh talked to the Pixel to write and send a message.
    — Will Knight, Wired, 13 Aug. 2021
  • And, once your phone is connected to the car via Bluetooth, hands-free phone calls and texting via dictation are a few of the many features now available.
    — cleveland, 22 Feb. 2020
  • The Pixel Watch’s display is too small to really type comfortably on, but voice dictation worked like a charm.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 19 July 2023
  • The Pixel Watch’s display is too small to really type comfortably on, but voice dictation worked like a charm.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023

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